Països Catalans Avenue in Esplugues de Llobregat
Transformation of Elisabeth Eidenbenz roundabout and Països Catalans Avenue in Esplugues de Llobregat
Most of our cities require urban regeneration processes to improve their conditions or to restart a new useful life that offers new uses and avoid consuming more land. This can range from obsolete industrial areas that we have to reschedule to the marginal neighbourhoods that we have to restore; from the aggressive infrastructures that we must redesign to the new mobility methods that we have to enhance; from the urban centres to which we have to bring peace and to renaturalise the sectors that can still be densified.
Urban recycling
Improve urban centres, reinforce declining areas and find other uses for obsolete infrastructures. At Batlleiroig, we have participated in various urban activities that transform spaces that had been dedicated to the industry: from Pegaso to Mercedes, from Can Batlló to Gallina Blanca, from Can Tiana and the Pons Factory to the central industrial estate in Viladecans.
Urban recycling / Related projects
Reappraising the site
Revalue the location’s pre-existing conditions to maintain its identity, achieve better landscape integration in the environment, and optimise the resources used. It is about respecting the character and values of the place, understanding that in the landscaping project it is never based on a blank sheet.
Reappraising the site / Related projects
Renovate
Rehabilitation is a fundamental principle of sustainability as it allows us to extend and improve the useful life of a building by recovering in double the time the ecological impact generated in its initial construction. Renovating obsolete and inefficient buildings instead of demolishing them and building them all over again significantly reduces ecological impact, energy consumption that is produced and the generation of waste.
